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profit growth holiday

English translation: taking a break from taking profit achieved through growth

14:58 Jul 29, 2002
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
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English term or phrase: profit growth holiday
Changing our organisational focus from a “returns” (“profit growth”) to a “sales growth” business with a +20% increase in brand investment funded by a one year profit growth holiday by XXX
Massimo Rippa
Italy
Local time: 04:01
Selected answer:taking a break from taking profit achieved through growth
Explanation:
At least that's how I read it.

In other words, XXX decided not to take their profit for a whole year (the "profit growth holiday") in order to invest the profit (or "to invest the difference between the usual profit and the profit achieved through growth").
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cheungmo
Grading comment
OK,
thank you very much. After further investigations, I succeded to solve the contraddictions in the source.
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4 +2explanation
Petra Molenaar
3not increasing profit margins
tongue tied
2taking a break from taking profit achieved through growth
cheungmo


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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
taking a break from taking profit achieved through growth


Explanation:
At least that's how I read it.

In other words, XXX decided not to take their profit for a whole year (the "profit growth holiday") in order to invest the profit (or "to invest the difference between the usual profit and the profit achieved through growth").


cheungmo
PRO pts in pair: 27
Grading comment
OK,
thank you very much. After further investigations, I succeded to solve the contraddictions in the source.
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
explanation


Explanation:
Instead of focussing on increasing the amount of profit (sales less cost of sales) the company for the next year will concentrate on increasing the sales (and by doing so, also the ultimate profit).



Petra Molenaar
Native speaker of: Dutch
PRO pts in pair: 11

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agree  airmailrpl
9 hrs
agree  Libero_Lang_Lab
3 days 16 hrs
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
not increasing profit margins


Explanation:
Companies need/want to show profit increases each year, this keeps shareholders and attracts new ones.

Profit Growth is the difference between one years profit margin and the subsequent years margin and to take a 'holiday' would mean that they will stop concentrating on increasing the profit margin from last year and use what would have been their 'profit growth amount' to reinvest in brand named products.

Ergo shareholders will receive dividends equal to last year and should not expect an increase.

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PRO pts in pair: 21
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